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500 Manat Dasoguz
| Issuer | Central Bank of Turkmenistan |
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| Year | 2000 |
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| Weight | 28.28 g |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing effigy of President Saparmyrat Nyyazow (in office 1991-2006), rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and suit collar. The portrait is framed below by two crossed laurel sprigs. A circular legend surrounds the effigy, with the president's name SAPARMYRAT NYÝAZOW inscribed along the lower arc and the titles TÜRKMENISTANYŇ ILKINJI WE ÖMÜRLIK PREZIDENTI arching around the upper and lateral fields. |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Turkmenistan's 2000 coinage program was largely commemorative in nature, produced for export and collector markets rather than domestic circulation — a pattern common to post-Soviet states using precious metal issues to generate hard currency revenue during economically precarious transition years. Dasoguz, the subject of this piece, is the administrative capital of the northernmost province bordering Uzbekistan, a region historically tied to the ancient Khorezm civilization and the Aral Sea basin's ongoing ecological collapse.